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Show The Siih of (; i-Viui'C "I do. firmly believe," said Sir Nathaniel Nathan-iel ,Baniaby at the iron and ste.d congress, con-gress, '"that wo shall get the mastery over the sea-, nnd .shall live far more happily in a marine residence, capable of '''-' 'ii'iciXiW an vr$r than weS can ever live in sea.i le 7i i mr Sir Nathaniel give his idea of what the coming ocean steamer would be like, lie believed that an immense steel ship could be construct rid s-. heavy and steady that she would not roll or pitch or heave in those:: a ship eo alrogethcr delightful delight-ful as a residence that passengers would r.'t bo in so desperate a hurry to get on short; and leave hor. The miuimain size of such a ship would be 1,000 feet in length and SCO feet wide. One trouble with this floating steel island, for such the steamer would be, would lie in the fact that no dock in the world would be large enough to receive re-ceive her. To meet this, he suggested that in the ship i ts-.d f could bo constructed construct-ed small still water harbors or docks, large enough for tugs a. id barges to enter and load and unload. Entering throug'i gates in the steamer's sides these small vessels could bring freight to her and take it .".way, passing in and out by the t.ates with more ease than freight is now hoisted and lowered at docks. The floating steel island would draw-not draw-not less than twenty-six feet of water. War ships built in this fashiou would require to be fortified and garrisoned like a town. Sir Nathaniel, however, thought that the change from wooden ships to iron ones was nut all gain, and he predicted: that America, owning one-sixth of all the wooden ships of above 100 tons in the world, would long find it to her advantage ad-vantage to continue to use them. The danger from collisions had increased 2221! v f"ld .vince iron ships':" into use. Knock;:..: a hide in an i:v.. side ineanv going to the bottom, x he information infor-mation the gentleman gave on the subject sub-ject of the vaunted bulkheads or separate sepa-rate compartments in the hulls of the iron steamers is not reassuring. He said: This ji:estif,n had been fully debated in 1SG8 by a efi!!:peteut committee of naval architects, shipbuilders and others, and the committee had decided that no iron pnsj.enjrer ship is well constructed unless her compartments be so proportioned pro-portioned that she woiiM fioat safely were any one of them to be fiile l v I;!; v.nk'r or be placed in free eeiiiimiuiciitio:; v t'.i. sea. They recommended recom-mended that the ship !-!;oi,M "he so divided that tu.t cii'y the largest compartment, but any Uvn adj.wnt compartments, iehrht 1-e filled without siiinii. the ship. These rcrommemialion.s Imvo since been absolutely ignored, although their wisdom wis-dom vas not disputed. All th(.-s ships, so far as they are used fr carrying pas -.enters or emigrants, emi-grants, have Ijoen Lauly cc nstruotej. The wuter th ht l.-alkhe.als existed for slmeturil purposes pur-poses erdy atid v.-ou'id Dot pivvert the. fetir.deritig I of the ship when run into. Last- year there were added to the Uritish register alx-nt l.t.t) tons gross Gfr.ier.n:s!i.:ps. Of these not t-ne-third could lay claim to having been built v.i: i any intentional . and satisfa-ttory regard to safiiy by means of Laryngitis. Laryngitis Is aa inflammation of the larynx, the organ of the voice. This in-flammntion in-flammntion would not be specially dangerous danger-ous but for the narrowness of the "chin!;"' in the larynx and the unyielding character of the surrounding walls. The sucking caused by -the inflammation as it crowds inward tends to obstruct and 'even to close the opening. In many cases the danger is j further increased by a frequent spasmodic i notion of tin laryngeal muscles, somewhat I ns in whooping cough. Laryngitis may be either acute or j chronic. Thg acuta form is t he more imme- j diately dangerous, but different cases of the acute form differ greatly in this respect, re-spect, according as the inflammation is confined to the mucous membrane or extends ex-tends to the tissues beneath. Youth's Companion. |